Still, Christie's appearance with Clinton earlier this month seemed to strike a nerve with the Middlesex Democrat.

"What frustrated me was that President Clinton didn't call him out for being a climate change denier," Buono said. "That's what frustrated me. The irony in all of this is that he is basking in the afterglow of Sandy, and yet we know that climate change, we know that our sea levels are higher, we know our atmosphere is warmer. We know that climate change is upon us, and that's why we're are having more extreme and more frequent weather patterns coming across New Jersey and across our nation."